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"May I speak now?" she asked. "I have been very patient, have I not?" "Indeed you have, Miss Sinclair," and Mr. Westcote smiled. "You may ask anything you like." "Surely you have not told me all. I thought you had merely begun when you stopped. Who was David Findley, anyway, and what does paper Number 2 contain? I am most curious to know the end of this strange story."
She told her story well and Mr. Westcote was keenly interested not only in what she told him, but in the animated look in her eyes and the varying shades of expression which passed over her fair face. He considered Jasper a lucky fellow in having such a beautiful woman striving so hard for his release. When Lois had finished, Mr. Westcote turned to his desk and drew the telephone toward him.
On the contrary, he smiled all the time she was speaking, as if her words greatly amused him. Lois was glad of any excuse to leave this man whose very presence depressed her in a remarkable manner. When at last alone with Miss Westcote in an adjoining room, she sank into a comfortable chair in a cosy corner. Her face was unusually pale, and this her companion at once noted.
Thrale's friends Baretti, Burke, Burney, Chambers, Garrick, Goldsmith, Johnson, Murphy, Reynolds, Lord Sandys, Lord Westcote, and in the same picture Mrs. Thrale and her eldest daughter. Mr. Thrale's portrait was also there. Dr. Burney's Memoirs, ii. 80, and Prior's Malone, p. 259. Pr. and Med. p. 214.
Now, they are the ones I wish to help as far as I can, but I have no idea what I ought to leave them." "How much would you like for them to have?" Mr. Westcote enquired. "Well, it would be nice if they could have a thousand each. That would make them so comfortable. But I am afraid such an amount is out of the question." "Not at all," was the reply.
Westcote replied, though it was evident that he with difficulty repressed a smile of amusement at his companion's words. "But I am somewhat worried about the others," David continued. "I wish to leave something to my faithful girl, Betty Bean, to her mother, who is a widow, and to Captain Peterson and his wife, for they have a hard struggle to make a living.
See Walpole's Letters, ix. 123, for an anecdote of Lord Westcote. 'Mrs. Lyttelton forced me to play at whist against my liking, and her husband took away Johnson's candle that he wanted to read by at the other end of the room. Those, I trust, were the offences. Piozzi MS. CROKER. Where there is emulation there will be vanity; and where there is vanity there will be folly.
"There is great trouble here, and you must come as soon and fast as you possibly can. Come at once to my cabin, and bring the best lawyer in the city. I will explain everything then." That was the message, and in reply Mr. Westcote told him that he would leave immediately in his car, travel as fast as possible, and bring his own lawyer with him.
Writing on Aug. 1, 1780, after mentioning the failure of his application to Lord Westcote, he continues: 'There is an ingenious scheme to save a day's work, or part of a day, utterly defeated. Then what avails it to be wise? The plain and the artful man must both do their own work. But I think I have got a life of Dr. Young. Piozzi Letters, ii. 173. Gent. Mag. vol. lv. p. 10.
All orders were given under penalty of dismissal, and Flannery had so many rules and regulations under his red hair that each day he wondered whether he would still be the Westcote agent at the end of the next. As he read his forehead wrinkled. "'Gineral Order Number Sivin Hundred an' noineteen," he read slowly.
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